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Last days!

Notes from Vegan
Outreach

In
just the past week, activists
have distributed more than 22,000
more booklets at colleges around
the country (see below), bringing
the semester total to over
94,000 booklets. Every
day, many new people are
learning of the hidden horrors of
factory farms and industrial slaughterhouses,
as well as what they can do to help
bring this cruel system to an end.

Thanks so muchto everyone whose hard
work and donations have made this
possible!

Products of the Week

Susan K writes: "I just discovered
the best vegan chocolate ice cream
ever made by a company called Temptations.
They also had Cookie Dough that
my friend had and said it was equally
as yummy."

And for around the kitchen, Tawnya
R endorses "the 'Magic
Bullet' blender. I use my Bullet
for fruit or soy based, stevia sweetened,
frozen desserts. I prefreeze ice
cubes of Silk Soy Beverage in a
variety of flavors and place them
in a freezer Zip bag. When I want
a treat I fill the small canister
with cubes and add Stevia and just
enough fluid Silk to cover."

Notes from All
Over

Help Make Veg Easier

The open-source VegGuide.org
gives everyone a chance to help
create a guide to veg eating around
the world. The more complete and
well-known this site becomes, the
easier it will be for people interested
in eating veg to explore their areas,
as well as eat veg on the road.

"The egg industry has agreed
to permanently drop 'Animal Care
Certified' logos on egg cartons,
after state officials and animal
rights groups said consumers were
being misled.

"The industry has already
replaced the logos, which now read,
'United Egg Producers Certified.'
The industry also agreed to pay
$100,000 to states for attorney
fees, consumer education and other
costs."

Notes from Our
Members

Third time was a charm
at TX Southern (an African-American
College). I had several group conversations
during breaks, and gave out lots
of GCFE
and information on the local vegetarian
restaurants. I am confident that
a few people are going to go vegetarian.
It seems that it was new to many
and now after a few trips and some
time to think about it, it is sinking
in.-Casey Constable, 9/22/06

At Cal Poly Pomona
today, several students
said they were deeply moved by our
literature in the past and said
that it profoundly changed their
lives.-Stewart Solomon, 9/21/06

U of Idaho is a great
place to leaflet:
large class changes, big ag school
from what I could tell. One student
came up to me and told me that sometimes,
when they remove layer hens from
the cages to be slaughtered, their
feet have become glued to the cage
and the legs detach from the body.
One woman, a Dane, said, "I
can't take this, I'm a farmer."
I pointed out that eating less meat
is a means, not an end, and she
took an EI and promised
to read it. She said she would never
work on a farm like those pictured
in EI and that the USA
is way behind Europe in animal welfare.-Victor Tsou, 9/20/06

At the Shakira Concert
that Casey and I leafleted, I met
a teacher who took a whole bunch
of pamphlets from me to give to
her students. She also wanted to
know how to volunteer to help leaflet.
I overheard one girl say to her
friends, "I love these. Everyone
should read them." I gave her
a GCFE
and a pack of pamphlets to distribute
at her school. I encountered one
woman who exclaimed, "I love
you! Give me a hug!" Unfortunately,
I dropped my pamphlets while she
was hugging me.-Eugene Khutroyansky,
9/20/06

At Sacramento City
College, a guy came
up to me saying, "How much
do these cost to make? This is very
effective. Have you ever thought
about doing something like this
for the Iraq war. I'm against animal
cruelty but don't you think it's
idealistic to think everyone will
be vegetarian some day." I
gave him my spiel of how 300 years
ago someone would have argued that
we'd never get rid of slavery and
he said "That's a good comparison."
I didn't have a chance to point
out that every animal who doesn't
have to suffer through factory farming
is a victory in itself.-Jack Norris, 9/19/06

At SUNY Cortland today,
Amber Coon came across a man wearing
a camouflage hat with a fish hook
through the brim. He asked her what
Ted Nugent would think of the booklet.
Amber told him that Nugent was not
a fan of factory farming. That got
the man's attention and he read
it quite intently as he walked off,
almost running into a bus.
Two
days ago at SUNY Oneonta was perhaps
my favorite leafleting session in
ages. SUNY Oneonta hosts 5.6k students
so roughly 1 out of every 6 students
got a booklet today. The acceptance
rate was very, very high. One young
seemingly athletic guy came up to
me and said, "I read it and
I'm very interested in this. Do
you have more information?"
I gave him a GCFE and he
was very grateful for that.
One
professor came up to me stating
that he just wrote a book on "new
ethical vocabularies" which
deals with AR activism and anti-tobacco
activists. He told me that if I
ever come up to the school again
that he'd gladly be of service in
any way he can. I gave him an AML,
took his info about his book, etc.
A
young man came up asking some questions
about if this was in the animals'
best interests/ consumers' best
interests. I talked to him about
efficiency, etc., and how we've
rejected certain things in the past
regardless of if it benefited our
immediate economic interests. He
shook hands with me and walked away.
A minute later, he came up stating
that he runs a local radio show
and asked if I'd do an interview
via phone within the next few weeks.
Quite
a few told me that it was moving,
a LOT of people mentioned reading
it, and it seemed like about everywhere
I looked, someone was reading the
booklet. As I drove away after my
day of leafleting, I broke away
from my normally calm demeanor and
gave a jubilant yell. It contained
some expletives, but they were joyous
expletives. A very good
day.-Jon Camp, 9/20/06

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